Students were reportedly outraged when it took the school's chancellor, R. Bowen Loftin, a week to respond to the student president's claim. However, they have not called for his resignation.

In October, a man, believed to have been intoxicated, allegedly harassed African-American students during the Legion of Black Collegians' Homecoming Royalty Court rehearsal.

The person was later identified and removed from the university, with a conduct hearing pending.

Then, protesters blocked President Wolfe’s car during the university’s official homecoming parade. That protest came days after Chancellor Loftin announced mandatory diversity and inclusion training for all incoming students, but one protester told the Columbia Missourian, “We disrupted the parade specifically in front of Tim Wolfe because we need him to get our message."

Earlier this month, graduate student Jonathan Butler started a hunger strike in response to several events, included a swastika being drawn with human feces in a campus dorm.

Wolfe met with Butler and issued an apology for acting as if he "did not care" at the homecoming parade. However, the hunger strike will reportedly end only with Wolfe's removal.